The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 100

He then passed over it to visit the princess, who, though somewhat surprised to see him, gave him welcome, and after some conversation became in her turn anxious to see the distant country where this stranger lived, and he promised that he would carry her there himself, without wetting the soles of his feet.

Who acts: Virgilius, conversation, stranger · What happens: pass, visit, see, give, become, turn · To what, where: rest, princess, Virgilius, distant country, soles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Virgilius, conversation, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 passed	advmod
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 visit	mark
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 passed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 visit	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 surprised	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 surprised	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 surprised	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 surprised	mark
14	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	15 surprised	advmod
15	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 princess	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 surprised	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gave	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 became	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 became	cc
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 conversation	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 conversation	det
27	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
29	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 turn	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 turn	nmod:poss
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 became	xcomp
32	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 turn	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 see	mark
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 anxious	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 country	det
36	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 country	amod
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	obj
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 lived	advmod
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 stranger	det
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lived	nsubj
41	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 country	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 promised	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 promised	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 promised	nsubj
45	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 became	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 carry	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 carry	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 carry	aux
49	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 promised	ccomp
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 carry	obj
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 carry	advmod
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 carry	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 wetting	punct
54	without	without	SCONJ	_	55 wetting	mark
55	wetting	wet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 promised	advcl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 soles	det
57	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 wetting	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 feet	case
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 feet	nmod:poss
60	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 soles	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Virgilius			rest	then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location
2	visit	to-infinitive	Virgilius not said here	the princess					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent
3	see	to-infinitive	Virgilius not said here	Virgilius					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	give	past	Virgilius not said here		Virgilius			welcome property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	become	past	some conversation						tree rules
6	turn	infinitive	some conversation not said here					anxious property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	see	to-infinitive	some conversation not said here	the distant country					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus
8	live	past	this stranger						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	promise speech: promise	past	Virgilius						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	carry	would	Virgilius	princess		there		Virgilius obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
11	wet	gerund	Virgilius not said here	the soles of Virgilius's feet					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sole=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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